{"id":20302,"date":"2026-03-20T03:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-must-adequately-fund-defense-johnson-says-amid-talk-of-200-billion-war-request-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:22:17","slug":"congress-must-adequately-fund-defense-johnson-says-amid-talk-of-200-billion-war-request-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-must-adequately-fund-defense-johnson-says-amid-talk-of-200-billion-war-request-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress must \u2018adequately\u2019 fund defense, Johnson says, amid talk of $200 billion war request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Majority Leader Steve Scalise declined to say if such a request could pass the House&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/03\/19\/congress\/mike-johnson-iran-war-funding-00835762\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Majority Leader Steve Scalise declined to say if such a request could pass the House&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}